Philippe Fouquart
Chair of the ISPCP, Senior Expert - Naming, Numbering and Addressing, Orange

According to ICANN's Office of the Chief Technical Officer (OCTO), in 2022, 95% of consumers served by large consumer ISPs in the European Union (EU) use their ISP-provided DNS resolvers.

On a global scale, however, recent years have seen the emergence of alternative DNS resolvers provided by global players. These alternatives generally support encrypted variants of the DNS protocol, which makes DNS queries sent to these alternative providers opaque to an ISP.

On the one hand, DNS resolution can be perceived as a cost centre for ISPs without a clear business case; on the other hand, the impact of an ISP network being blind to outgoing DNS requests has raised some concerns within the ISP community and beyond.

In this context, the EU has put forward a proposal for a public European DNS resolver service; the project has been launched in early 2023. This panel will discuss the implementation plan of DNS4EU and its (potential) impact on the European market and DNS resolver landscape.

Michal Havelka
Product Manager, Whalebone

Peter Thomassen
CTO, deSEC

The Internet is based on the principle of access: Everyone should have equal access to the information and services provided by the World Wide Web. And each user, large or small, is responsible for organising his or her access through the Internet access provider of his or her choice, or through peering services and data centres.

Almost as long as the Internet has existed, there have been discussions about network access charges or so-called sender pay schemes. And there have been discussions and regulations about full and fair access, such as the EU's Open Internet Regulation.

This panel will discuss questions such as Is the internet not fair anymore? Should those who transfer the most data pay an extra fee? Would this violate the Open Internet Regulation? Is the market distorted? What is the underlying technical architecture of the Internet ecosystem and what are the current and future market developments?

Lise Fuhr
Director General (CEO), ETNO

Klaus Landefeld
Vice Chair of the Board, Board Member for Infrastructure & Networks, eco - Association of the Internet Industry

Thomas Rickert (Moderator)
Director Names & Numbers, eco - Association of the Internet Industry

(eco background paper, ETNO FAQs)